us that on Green Day's official website, front man Billie Joe Armstrong has left an audio message in which he talks about the re-release of 1039/Smoothed Out Slappy Hours and the band's upcoming follow-up to 2000's Warning [review]. That new album should be released this year.

Armstrong mentioned his opinion of the new material "I'm really excited about it. I think it's going to blow some people away. It's really blowing me away, and that's why I play music… As long as I'm blowing myself away, then I'll continue to do this. I know it's taken me about three and a half years so far to blow myself away but I just want to make sure. I wouldn't say I'm a perfectionist, but I just want things to be great. I want things to be exceptional."